PORTS FIGHT ON.
UNAWARE Or ARMISTICE. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 3. General Weygand, in an Order of the Day stated that 22,000 French Maginot Line soldiers, unaware of the armistice, fought on for five days after the cease fire order, gays a message from Vichy.
"The Times" says three forts of the Maginot Line are still resisting. The Franco-German Armktice Commission has arranged with General Huntziger for an attempt to approach the forts and inform the defenders that an armistice has been signed. ,
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 157, 4 July 1940, Page 8
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